Mill Hercules Eiffel

“In San Esteban we can find other curiosity: a mill designed and built by Gustave Eiffel. The same, After being acquired in the Rural exhibition in Buenos Aires by Maria Olmos Harilaos, the then Governor of Córdoba Don Ambrosio Olmos family, It was installed in St. Stephen in the early years of the 20th century”. The previous text, based on the still written and oral tradition of the history of the town, it loses all credibility to evidence that exposes the same mill opposite the visitor.

Jorge Tartarini, under the title “Windmills”, demolishes the myth in a note published in the “Supplement style and decoration” the journal page 12 date 26/01/2013: “It's a model manufactured by the firm of engineer J. TO. Saglio, with headquarters in Bernardo de Irigoyen 1460-70 Buenos Aires and workshops and branch in the city of La Plata.”

Tartarini transcribed in its note the contents of a catalog of early 20th century where the company ponders the virtues of your mill with the following words: “The Argentina-born and gradually perfected in their homeland. The domestic industry by imposing foreign! Hercules mill than, sooner or later, will have Ud. to adopt”.

The literature of J. TO. Saglio referring to mill “Hercules” Model 1916 6 presents N-type follows: “Mill soberbio describing the ability of our workshops in this kind of buildings. It is built with two water tanks: one, for irrigation service and the other, for water service. It carries staircase snail which gives access to the first platform and balcony of the big bottom tank and on the platform of the upper cylindrical reservoir. The tower is built with armed stringers, brackets and artistic ornamentation, forming a highly recommended”.

"With two galvanized iron deposits, the lower hexagonal-shaped of 30.000 litres and the cylindrical upper of 20.000 liters. Height to the center of the wheel 28.50 meters. Installed on the grounds of the nursing home. Sr property. Dr. Plácido Marín"